Jimmie Johnson, a four-time winner of the Kobalt Tools 400 event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and a five-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion, is favored to repeat the feat in Sunday’s main event. Although winless in the first two races of the 2011 campaign, Ed Salmons, Race and SportsContinue Reading
While fans at Phoenix International Raceway said goodbye to the track’s old racing surface and configuration, Jeff Gordon bid adieu to a winless streak of 66 races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Gordon pulled away from Kyle Busch during the closing laps for victory in the SUBWAY Fresh FitContinue Reading
Phoenix International Raceway is one of Justin Lofton’s favorite race tracks. He entered the event weekend with high hopes at the one-mile facility, but an issue with his No. 77 Lofton Cattle Toyota Tundra early into the Lucas Oil 150 on Friday night left him with a 30th place finish.Continue Reading
Regan Smith’s strong performance of 2011 was continuing in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Phoenix International Raceway. But on Lap 67 of 312, Smith’s No. 78 Furniture Row Chevrolet was in the wrong place at the wrong time as it suffered major damage after being involved in a 14-car wreck on theContinue Reading
Sixth place goes down in the record books as just that: sixth. It’s not a shiny number. It’s a solid number. And for a team that’s been blanked by a 1-mile slick and slippery race track for the past four years, sixth is quite an accomplishment. “To come out ofContinue Reading
Trevor Bayne’s been saying all along that there would be highs and lows in his first year driving the Wood Brothers No. 21 Motorcraft/Quick Lane Ford Fusion. But he wasn’t counting on them coming so close together. Just a week after his thrilling victory in the Daytona 500 and weeklongContinue Reading
Panhandle Motorsports’ No. 20 Panhandle Grading Toyota Tundra team, headed up by the youngest driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – Johanna Long – earned their first top 20 finish at their inaugural visit to Phoenix International Raceway. Long lined up the No. 20 Panhandle Grading Toyota TundraContinue Reading
After a tough start to the 2011 season last weekend at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, the No. 2 Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) team packed up and headed west to the desert and Phoenix International Raceway looking to rebound. Sadler qualified in the 11th position for the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200, butContinue Reading
Kasey Kahne will make his return to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in the Too Tough To Tame 200 at Darlington Raceway on March 12. Kahne will pilot No. 18 Toyota Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports. “Kyle has assembled a great group of guys over at KBM and I’mContinue Reading
Charlotte Motor Speedway will partner with regional tourism bureaus and area hotel operators to secure lower room rates for fans attending races during the weekends of the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race and Coca-Cola 600, May 20 – 29. More than 50 hotels within approximately one hour of the 1.5-mile superspeedwayContinue Reading